Couldn’t wait til morning for these:
The House Calendar for 2021 is out. Here’s a story about it. And here’s the document.
FP reports on the fight to be HFAC chairman.
The administration is slashing the size of its embassy in Iraq.
A former official says CIA is losing people because of poor personnel management.
Dan Drezner sees Trump-Biden tug of war over foreign policy.
WSJ says China’s only US friend is Wall Street
CSIS has a list of popular but bad ideas.
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